Sentences with phrase «clear standards needed»

Huw Lewis said the 2013 Pisa results were «stark» and while it was clear standards needed to improve, there were «no quick fixes»

Not exact matches

You'll need a clear space 100 feet in diameter to take off and land, the company said, but the vehicle will fit in a «standard - construction single - car garage.»

The twenty - seven writings are the norm or standard of Christian faith and life, set forth as such in response to the need for clear definition.

But any standard, especially a standard of excellence, needs to draw a clear line between those who make it and those who don't.

To answer that question, Justin argues that we have to have «a clear, consistent biblical standard for interpreting the text, a principle we can apply to various passages that will help us to determine, fairly and consistently, how to translate them for our culture... Such a standard would need to be able to differentiate God's eternal laws — such as those dealing with murder, theft, and adultery — from the cultural biblical rules Christians are no longer obligated to follow — such as those dealing with dietary restrictions and head coverings.»

I meant to add that for the Bible to serve as such a standard however, first one needs to be convinced that it's actually a divine revelation, and then become clear in its content.

«It's clear that our priorities and concerns about the need for standards modernization have resonated with this administration,» said Cary Frye, IDFA senior vice president of regulatory affairs.

Because we need to clear space in our squad mate, we've got players like Diaby, Flamini, Arteta, Sanogo, Podolski, Campbell, who don't contribute much now, if these players were moved on an better players introduced it would rasie the standards at the club which will help us to challenge the top team in europe.Sanogo a project?we haven't got that kind of time mate not while he earning 40k a week for not doing much.

AM - N IS ABOVE ALL VERSATILE AND IT IS CLEAR HE IS OF THE STANDARD WE NEED IN THE ELEVEN ALREADY AND AT HIS TENDER AGE WILL ONLY IMPROVE, provided Wenger does not ruin him by messing him about and playing him anywhere other than where he is best suited.

Set few explicit clear standards, limits, or prohibitions for behavior or respect for needs of others

In the same way that soda made with cane sugar in lieu of high fructose corn syrup is not a healthful beverage, there needs to be a clear message that «slime - free» ground beef is by no means the golden standard, especially when an ever - growing body of research continues to highlight the harmful effects of red meat consumption (the latest: it «contributes substantially to premature death»).

SHIRA HIRSHBERG: It depends on the number of hours that I am away from her, but typically during my standard workday, two to three times, it is pretty now I just started doing this and it was pretty clear to me when I needed to pump.

The fact that the Greek people see their misfortunes to an extent as the result of an externally - pursued strategic reduction of their living standard is perhaps the clearest indication that EU and its most powerful member states need to be careful when interacting with this proud nation.

Labour needs to take advantage of this situation and position itself as the clear alternative to the Tories with progressive policies to raise living standards.

The State's Business Council, which backed the Common Core standards, said in a statement from the group's President, Heather Briccetti, that whether you agree with the new standards or not «it is clear that our students are not receiving the education they need and higher standards must not be rolled back.»

With us — and we see this as parents, not politicians - every school needs to be striving for excellence — and to make that clear we are looking at raising the official standards below which no school can fall, even further.

Wilbur Ross, the US commerce secretary, made America's requirements for a trade deal clear earlier this month: Britain would need to dismantle EU regulations and agree to (typically much lower) US ones, on things like pharmaceuticals, data protection, chemical safety standards and meat treatment.

«The Leveson Report made clear that any press self - regulator would need to be subject to regular inspection over the years to ensure that its standards did not decline and it did not decay into another Press Complaints Commission.

«However, the latest Annual Report also confirms that without a clear focus on the need to support the capacity of the system to sustain these improvements, standards of education are being put at risk.

They also expressed a clear need for Labour to learn lessons from the experience of the people of Greece and a desire to continue to build links with Syriza and other socialist parties in countries like Spain and Portugal in order to prevent further decline in the living standards of working class people.

«As the Stevens commission made clear, we need new reforms to keep raising standards in policing, to make sure there is swift action when policing goes wrong, to ensure that unethical or criminal behaviour by individual officers is caught and stopped — and to make sure it doesn't taint the vital work the rest of the police do each day.»

One hopes that when — or, more likely, if — the academic community finally comes around to providing such needed information as a matter of course, institutions can agree on a standard set of career categories — either this taxonomy or some other — that will allow clear comparisons among universities.

Meanwhile, clear standards for programmers and developers of such cars need to be drawn up, says Tinosch Ganjineh at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, as accident liability may fall more often on software or sensor - makers.

We need a clear national standard that limits the use of BPA in canned food and improves transparency so that people can know when and if they are ingesting this harmful chemical.»

Instead of clearing out the home, we recommend working with the hoarder to determine what needs to be done to meet and sustain basic standards of safety.

For instance, there might need to be clear admissibility criteria for postdocs that might possibly include standards for English language ability, a change in the locus for making the offer of acceptance, and a shift of the overall responsibility for postdocs from an individual professor to an academic unit.

«It was clear to everybody that we need more refined technical requirements, not just guidelines,» says Gerhard Kminek, planetary protection officer for the European Space Agency and chair of COSPAR's planetary protection panel, which sets the standards.

Other researchers noted that because the trial involved treatments that were all considered «standard of care,» it wasn't clear whether researchers needed to inform parents about risks related to care that might have been provided even without the study.

While they cover basic physiology and discuss the standard scientific principles of exercise and periodization, they fail to offer the clear, practical programming instructions you need to be successful.

Standard of care therapies failed to stop the relentless progression of his disease, and it became painfully clear that she needed to switch gears quickly.

For a conventional high carb athlete we continue to feel the standard Maffetone Method Low HR Training (MAF) approach is an excellent tool for their base and recovery training, however, based on athlete feedback and new data is has become clear to us the 180 BPM minus chronological age needs to shift with a fat - adapted athlete and here is why: The Maffetone Method was developed using athletes who were using a relatively high carbohydrate diet.

But standards really need to be established, and the companies that don't resort to this practice need to be highlighted and clear to users.

Since Prom's fanbase seems to have minimal overlap with A / V buffs, I imagine that few will see any reason to want or need clearer picture or sound than this standard DVD offers.

This standard specifies that the courseware needs to provide clear orientation display features that indicate the learner's current location within the course.

Teaching points that are covered in the topic are listed below: Understand that it is important to be able to grow plants well because they provide food and other items for us To know that all food chains begin with a green plant To understand the function of the parts of a plant To understand that plants need leaves in order to grow well To plan an appropriate investigation To make careful observations and measurements of plants growing To use simple apparatus to measure the height of plants in standard measures To use results to draw conclusions and provide explanations To know that water is transported through the stem to other parts of the plant To know that that plants need light for healthy growth To know that plants need water, but not unlimited water, for healthy growth To know that temperature can affect the growth of plants To ask questions about the growth of plants To plan a fair test To write a clear conclusion

Therefore, the standards need to be clear and the observers should not only be trained, they should demonstrate their understanding of the standards by replicating the ratings given by master scorers.

Being clear on standards will help to smooth the path of any corrective action that is needed within the defects liability period.

For example, what if top - down accountability as defined and enforced by states and the federal government were limited to basic skills, something like the MCTs of the 1970s but based on clear, empirically validated standards about what students need to know and be able to do to hold down the types of jobs that do not require a college degree?

Clear standards that describe the performance that is needed and how it is to be accomplished.

We had looked at the standard large parental communication online systems but it was clear that they were just too complex and detailed for what we needed.

The EFA needs to be clearer when dealing with its partners about how they want to see its baseline standards and designs for schools used during the design process.

Therefore, we use national standards to choose the best classical curriculum for our schools and ensure that every teacher has a clear roadmap to implement that curriculum, giving them the tools they need to plan and teach effectively.

«However, the need for action in those limited circumstances is clear, because of the considerable risk to the standard of education that young people in those schools receive, as the local authority is either unable to guarantee their continued success or support further improvement.»

The State's Business Council, which backed the Common Core standards, said in a statement from the group's President, Heather Briccetti, that whether you agree with the new standards or not «it is clear that our students are not receiving the education they need and higher standards must not be rolled back».

But while this makes clear the need to use standard English, there is no mention of accents.

Another change Thiesfeldt announced Wednesday is to include clear language regarding the Common Core State Standards — to either ensure school districts know they don't need to use them or to ask the Department of Public Instruction to adopt new standards altogether.

When we teach to the standards, we have a very clear idea of what we need students to learn.

In addition, schools need to develop clear standards, which can check the effectiveness of the teaching and learning process, as well as provide reliable data on student progress.

The standards spell out what leaders need to know and do to improve instruction, providing a clear description of the principal's job.

She said the need for action in the «limited circumstances» is clear because of the «considerable risk to the standard of education that young people in those schools receive, as the local authority is either unable to guarantee their continued success or support further improvement».